Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.